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Tax compliance is an important challenge in weakly institutionalized countries, in which citizens do not trust the State and prefer to evade taxation. However, e-government strategies may improve fiscal capacity, as the transaction costs of compliance are reduced and more information from taxpayers is gathered and exploited. Can compliance be increased, and hence fiscal capacity strengthened,…

Open science can provide researchers diverse opportunities to collaborate, disseminate their research results, generate important impacts in the scientific community, and engage in effective and efficient science for the benefit of society. This study seeks to analyse and evaluate researchers’ knowledge of open science in Colombia using a survey to determine adequate instruments with which to…

The Philippines' National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has officially named the China Telecom led Mislatel consortium as the market's third major player.

The regulator has issued a confirmation order declaring the consortium consisting of China Telecom and business concerns owned by local tycoon Dennis Uy as the market's third telco.

Mislatel consists of China Telecom,…

Each of Hong Kong's four mobile operators have applied to take part in the upcoming auction of 900-MHz and 1800-MHz spectrum, regulator Ofca has revealed.

China Mobile Hong Kong, HKT, Hutchison Telephone Company and SmarTone have all submitted applications for the auction of 70 MHz of 1800-MHz spectrum and 50 MHz of 900-MHz spectrum.

The four operators were granted the right of…

Thai regulator NBTC has indicated it will decide on Thursday whether to assign idle 26-GHz spectrum to AIS and True Corp to conduct 5G trials.

If approved, the NBTC plans to assign the spectrum for testing in two locations during the period between November 22 and December 15, the Nation reported, citing remarks from the regulator's secretary general Takorn Tantasith at a recent 5G…